Senior Cyber Resilience Consultant

AHEAD; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

401(k)

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

AHEAD is seeking a Senior Consultant to help clients anticipate, withstand, recover from cyber incidents, and evolve beyond cyber threats. You will lead advisory and delivery work focused on incident recovery, disaster recovery, response and recovery maturation, and post-incident resilience improvement.

The successful candidate translates lessons from incidents and threat exposure into practical improvements to recovery strategies, playbooks, and governance, collaborating with diverse

Qualifications

• Significant experience in cybersecurity consulting, incident response, cyber recovery, disaster recovery, business continuity, or a closely related discipline.
• Demonstrated experience designing, assessing, testing, or improving incident response and recovery capabilities.
• Strong understanding of enterprise infrastructure and security environments across identity, endpoints, networks, cloud, applications, data, backups, and third-party dependencies.
• Ability to communicate complex technical risks and recovery decisions to practitioners and executives.
• Willingness to travel for client engagements as required.

Responsibilities

• Assess and mature incident response, cyber resilience, and threat intelligence capabilities.
• Design recovery operating models based on threat hunting scenarios, roles and responsibilities, escalation paths, and decision rights.
• Develop and refine cyber recovery plans, runbooks, crisis playbooks, and communications procedures.
• Lead purple-team-style validation of cyber recovery readiness by translating attack paths into test scenarios.
• Partner with offensive-security and defensive-security stakeholders to validate controls and telemetry.
• Create practical roadmaps to mature anticipation and recovery capabilities over time.

Skills

Cybersecurity consulting

Incident response

Disaster recovery

Crisis management

Job description

AHEAD is seeking a Senior Consultant to help clients anticipate, withstand, recover from cyber incidents, and evolve beyond cyber threats. You will lead advisory and delivery work focused on incident recovery, disaster recovery, response and recovery maturation, and post-incident resilience improvement.

The successful candidate translates lessons from incidents and threat exposure into practical improvements to recovery strategies, playbooks, and governance, collaborating with diverse